Vehicle-wheel tire and rim.



S. L. SIMPSON. VEHICLE WHEEL TIRE AND RIM. APPLIOATIONI'ILED 001'. 19, 1909.-

974,713, Patented Nov. 1,1910.

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SELDEN L. SIMPSON, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE SIMPSON SPECIALTY COMIE'ANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

VEHICLE-WHEEL TIRE AND. RIM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 1, rain.

Application filed October 19 1909. Serial No. 523,530.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SELDEN L. SIMPSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Wheel Tires and Rims; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will onable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in vehicle wheels and particularly to anovel construction of securing a tire to the rim of a wheel.

The invention comprises "various details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

I illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional view through a tire and clamping plates forming a part of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a detail perspective vlew.

Reference now being had to the details 'of" the drawings by numerals, 18 designates the telly of a wheel provided with spokes 9 and, in Fig. I of the drawings, I have shown the outer end of one of the s okes as being contracted as at 10, to receive a ferrule 11 and said ferrule isqprovided with threads adapted to receive a nut 12. A clamping plate 2 is provided with threaded apertures 13 for the reception of the threaded end of the ferrule and said clamping nesses.

plate is provided with inwardly turned marginal edges 3.

5 designates a tire made up of any suitable material, preferably Manila fiber, combined with tar, asphalt, etc., and through which reinforcing wires 6 are passed. The inwardly turned marginal edges 3 of said plate clamp the tire at positions diametrically opposite, forming the indentures 4 in the tire to securely hold-the same in place, and bolts 7 are passed through paralle portions of the plates 2 and, by tightening the nuts 8, said plates ma be held against the marginal edges of the elly and also the tire.

By the rovision of the foregoing, it will be noted that a simple and efiiclent means is afforded for securely holding a tire upon the rim of a wheel.

What I claim to be new is In combination with the felly of a wheel having a rim, the opposite edges of which project beyond the opposite edges of the felly, clamping plates having wings struck up therefrom and curved and adapted to engage underneath the projecting portions of the rim, portions of the plates engaging the circumference of the rim, a tire in contact with portions of said plates, inwardly extending wings upon said plates engaging the tire at positlons diametrlcally opposite, the outer marginal edges of. the plates provided with apertures, and bolts passing through said plates and adapted to hold the same in clamping relation against the tire and rim. In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two wit- SELDEN L. SIMPSON. Witnesses:

J ACOBEN WoLENsm,

MICHAEL SQHAFFER. 

